Christoph started the application that later became Kate back in 2000, and have stayed with it as a core developer and active maintainer ever since. He has contributed major parts of the code, and is the brain behind the excellent named sessions feature found in Kate 2.5.

Dominik joined the Kate Project back in early 2004. Since then he constantly contributes e.g. by maintaining the syntax highlighting files, reviewing patches and developing core features such as scripting support or the line modification system in Kate Part.

Jowenn has been with Kate development since the early days, and is the developer behind Kate’s excellent syntax highlighting engine, the code folding system, the insertion template system and much more.

Milian joined the Kate developers in 2009. Since then, he actively contributes in many areas such as maintaining syntax highlighting files, fixing indentation scripts and writing unit tests. He also likes to increase performance and fix general bugs he encounters while using KatePart in KDevelop.

Kåre joined the Kate project back in 2008 and since then adds a lot of very useful features through plugins. Famous examples include: CTags, Build plugin, GDB Debugger plugin, Search & Replace in Files.

Shaheed R Haque has been hacking on KDE projects on-and-off since 2000, including KOffice, KDE libs, Kate (Python plugin support, and some plugins), KDEPIM, multi-language support with a Bengali focus (kxkb, Viki virtual keyboard.) as well as bits and pieces elsewhere in the Open Source world.

Pablo is a Django developer and uses Kate to code. He joined the Kate Project in 2013, but since 2009 he has been developing plugins for Kate. In 2011, he created a repository on github to develop these plugins and share them, now he codes them in the official repository.

Bernhard joined the Kate Project in 2008 and is doing a great job in refactoring code in Kate to make it very easy to understand. For instance, he is maintaining the excellent search & replace feature as well as the undo/redo system.

Anders has been active in Kate development since the start back in 2000, and have contributed among others the view splitting mechanism (Kate), the External Tools feature (Kate), the document list color shading (Kate) and printing functionality (KatePart).